Although presidential primary votes will not be cast for another six months, the presidential primary season is heating up. The Republican field now boasts a whopping 16 candidates to choose from. These candidates differ in policy views, career experience, tone, sex, race, beer choices and hair styles.

The University of South Carolina will welcome some of the nation’s and the state’s top students for the university’s most valuable and prestigious scholarship program. Recipients of the Carolina/Hamilton Scholar Awards for in-state students and the McNair/Horseshoe Scholar Awards for out-of-state students will join the
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About 2 a.m. one morning, a police officer watched a vehicle make a wide right turn out of a shopping center. The officer pulled in behind it and witnessed the driver swerve within the lane of travel, according to the report. At the next traffic light, the car made a U-turn and headed back to where the wide right-hand turn had been made.

• Police responded to Weathers Court apartments at Corey Boulevard for a report of a sign on fire. The manager had already put the fire out and said he didn’t wish to press charges, according to a report.

Amanda Aguirre of Summerville received her white coat at the Physician Assistant Program Class of 2016 White Coat Ceremony at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) in Harrogate, Tenn., on June 27.

Sinbad-Sadie Second Chance Rescue is teaming up with Coldwell Banker Real Estate and Adopt-a-Pet.com, North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption web site, on Aug. 1-2 for the first-ever Homes for Dogs National Pet Adoption Weekend.

With Daft Punk’s “Human After All,” I found myself in an interesting crossover space where, if my boys were a touch older, they would probably be educating me about the nature of the music. While transferring the album from my computer to CD, I laughed when I saw iTunes had filed it in the ‘Indie Rock’ genre. It
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The sale of the JCC building at 1645 Raoul Wallenberg Boulevard in West Ashley has gone under contract with a projected closing date of late August. The contract was approved unanimously by the JCC Board of Directors after having marketed the property for over a year. The sale is still contingent upon the purchaser’s satisfaction of its due
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Veteran students enrolled at The Citadel earned top honors in the spring 2015 semester. Dean’s List recognition is given to students registered for 12 or more semester hours and whose grade point average is 3.2 or higher with no grade below a C for the previous semester’s work.